I got this and it was like the most
painful I like got numb and I was just
like my body was like in shock I just
whatever just finish it I wouldn't do it
again some people like the pain but I
don't see how my first tattoo is this
one right here on my upper huh and it's
like you know the Warner Brothers like
the WB sign is the same thing as that
but it's Miller brothers so me and my
brother both got the same tattoo that
the first one I got I was 18 my mom
would never let me get tattoos like I
always wanted to like get a tattoo but
she never let me do it she was like yeah
when you graduate high school you can do
what you want to do kind of had that
type of attitude about it and then when
I was going to school we flew to Utah we
set my dorm up and then we went to the
mall just to like look around and it was
a tattoo shop in there and I was like
let me get a check - my mom was like all
right let's do it I'm which you get your
first tattoo I major is a clean shop and
that they do it right and all this stuff
so we went in there I got the tattoo and
then she dropped me off at the
volleyball game the day before school
started she paid for it - I went in
condition right after that in this one
says certified fly guy all my friends
they all got the same tattoo like that's
just what we call ourselves as as a
group
lot of because it goes from my brother
to Stevie Johnson played football at
junior college football with my brother
and went to Kentucky then he played in
the NFL for like 10 years so he was one
of the best receivers in the league and
like he got the same tattoo
everybody's tattoo kind of have wings
around like this CF in some way it
looked different but this was just the
design that I liked so I got this one
I started to feel like I was like
off-balance so I had like this one in
this one and I was like man I got these
two but then like I don't have nothing
over here I think I went home during
Christmas my freshman year in college
during the time I was there like went to
church and like one of the scriptures
covered in that summer was this
scripture Psalms 37 verse 1 through 6
you know it's that right with me you
know I felt like it was a little bit
about my story with how he went into the
scripture and then how he talked about
it you know just had a faith in it and
living right and doing right you know
and being a good person over time it'll
shine through I felt like that was my
position you know not getting recruited
in high school going to a small college
but I always felt like I was like the
best I always thought I was one of the
top players in high school even in
college I thought that but I felt like
people wouldn't acknowledge it or they
didn't recognize it and I felt a strong
way about it so I was like cool doesn't
gonna be one next tattoo I literally sat
there and got this all in one sitting at
first I just had like the words and it
was like just this one line around it it
took like 2 hours
I came over here and I got my sister's
name I got my mom's name and I didn't
want it to be like a gap between this
and this so I put the clouds in there
and when I got the clouds in there I was
like man I got it this looked plain so
they kind of like started putting the
tears in it
and then they put the Sun around it like
on both sides and then in this one it
was a gap so I got these stars right
here like this and I actually like
connected these two then I put like
something over my shoulders before I
know it I had to half-sleeve and like my
arm was full like I even did the back
forever blessed the basketball this one
is like a torch for like Oakland point
guards so it's like me he repaid Jason
Keith Brian Shaw so it's like a torch
and I got my name like under the fire
light I was real hesitant to go on my
forearms so like that's when I got this
chest piece the pattern right here is
like the Oakland tree like if you see
like Auto City limit signs you'll see
this tree all over the city the root of
the tree is a heart or the city you know
open there's your branches
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right here and right here was done by
one person same person did this one and
this one and then a guy in Oakland
actually did this Oakland torch it's
like an old watch because in our games I
always point to my wrist into the game
if I hit like a game-winner or a big
shot I do like this like for damn time
like I'm taking over it's a map behind
it basically saying like all the places
I've covered with these type of moments
so it's like Ogden where I went to
college right here is Oregon where I
play now Oakland so like I wear the
number 0 for Ogden Oakland and order
like a lot of places that I live this is
like it's the oak I wear the number 0
but when they introduced me at the game
they say wearing the letter O Damian
Miller because they know my number
represents Oakland I get in Oregon so I
represents the letter in Auto cities
that's why he's like that that's why I
got it with you
I'm from Brookfield East Oakland and
Brookfield a view from Brookfield you a
boy or you would do a jungle boy
Brookfield a jungle boys and jungle
girls and that was something that
started like my parents you know like my
mom was a Brookfield jungle girl she
used to say it when I was a kid Oakland
Raiders like I'm a Raiders fan but I
grew up like right around the corner
from the stadium so always be a Raiders
fan this is mystery sign of the street
that I grew up on Clara Street that's
how you throw up my neighborhood like
did
I got a breast cancer ribbon with my
grandmother's initials on it she's still
living but she went through like the
whole breast cancer process she survived
and then April Murphy is my my brother's
high school sweetheart and they dated in
college she actually passed away from
breast cancer so me and her was real
tight she passed away so I got this
ribbon with both of their initials on it
really significant you know something
that meant a lot to me especially these
two people so you know it was definitely
worthy right here right obviously this a
town biz people from Oakland all you can
call into town whenever you like do
something like how I behave or how I
might handle a situation is like town
business like everybody say that so
right here it's a town [ __ ] and right
here is say it takes a village so this
is like the Rushmore for me that's my
grandmother my mom's mom it's my
grandfather my mom's dad that's my mom's
brother my uncle Richard like that's me
I'm super tight and that's my dad and
probably tell that's my dad to it this
is my mom right here I did all this in
one day
I've got him all the time because they
looked exactly like this
when I get a idea of the tattoo I just
make sure I sit with it for a little
while just to make sure it's good like
that's what I really want to go with
obviously it got to mean something to me
off the RIP I sit with it to see like
over time am I gonna still think the
same with his idea or am I just in the
moment right now excited about something
like for example it is tattoo like when
I first thought of it I was like man
like I was thinking about like all of
the heroes and you know the iconic
people who paved the way for us to live
the way we live today african-americans
you know I'm thinking about Sojourner
Truth - Martin Luther King and Rosa
Parks to Malcolm X to Jackie Robinson to
Muhammad Ali like athletes civil rights
movement slavery without them we you
don't know what you know what the world
would be today for us as African
Americans so I thought for a moment
about I might put like some of those
people you know on my armor then talking
to the tattoo artists I was liking and I
got people in my life that had I
wouldn't be Who I am
theory that it wasn't for these people
in art so that's why I sit with it to
make sure like all right isn't it more
self
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I got a microphone on my back got a star
on my back just like a broken up star
where you can like see inside of the
star and it's just different words you
can see and it's just words that I think
make up where the true star is like
character family and loyalty
I think people views me as a star like
in my professional career as an athlete
like doing music and just being known
like just having a lot of fans around
the world and you know everybody do you
know this guy different from that guy
and this guy different from that guy but
I think the true definition of what a
star is or what they embody these words
represent it or what it should be what
it should represent this crown right
here is for my son say Damon jr. and his
birthday March 29th 2008 and it's a
crown because you know that's my my
first one my Junior so you notice
everything to me now so very valuable so
it got like the crown like like the
Rolex the
because it's like that valuable this is
my rap logo my boy movie ah he designed
it came up with it being him both is
just like a dollar sign but it's just a
D like for Dame dollar for two DS and
check him out on Instagram booyah he my
yogi my AGI
I probably just like to fill in the rest
of this space like just like I'm I know
it looked like I don't have enough space
but just like it can be more for like I
think this arm looks more forward than
this one like more put together so right
that's what I want to do next I don't
have an idea yet I don't regret any of
my tattoos I wish I were to use this
space better with these clouds I could
have used that space a little bit
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